👩🏫 Currently working as lecturer at the DBM chair of the MS3 department at the University of Twente 🇳🇱
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🥽 Part of the curriculum renewal of the BSc in Mechanical Engineering since 2025 | Theme: Project and Skills | Semester 1: Mechanical design and Manufacturing | 🔗Quality Insurance - NVAO Mechanical Engineering - Publication outcomes development dialogue
⚙️ Module and Project coordination since 2022 | Module ME 4: Design and Mechanics | BSc in Mechanical Engineering
- 2024 - Project case in partnership with Revalidatiecentrum Roessingh - "Design of a patient lift"
- 2023 - Project case in partnership with Engineers without Borders NL - "Design of a water tower frame"
- 2022 - Project case in partnership with Huisman Equipment BV - "Design of an offshore crane for maintenance of floating wind turbines"
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🧰 Semester 1 project coordination since 2023 | UT-VU semester 1| Joint BSc in Mechanical Engineering UT-VU
- 2025 - Project case on a Mechanical Dutch Shuffleboard (Sjoelen) Player - Ongoing
- 2024 - Project case on a Mechanical Cornhole Player - Final competition on Campus at the UT
- 2023 - Project case on a Mechanical Pétanque Player - Final competition at the local Jeu de Boules association
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💼 Individual internship supervision since 2024 | MSc internship in Mechanical Engineering
- 2025 - Tim Roos - Internship with Damen | ME - "Barge Loader for a Cutter Suction Dredger"
- 2024 - Luc Visser - Internship with Huisman Equipment BV | ME - "Design of a transportation cart -Subcomponent of deck skid system for monopile installation"
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🔬 MSc thesis co-supervision since 2024 | MSc theses in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design Engineering
- 2026 - Geert Talsma - Assignment with Engineers without Borders NL, TrashSmart Ghana and Humanitarian Engineering UT | ME - Ongoing
- 2025 - Tirsa van der Ouw - Assignment with Engineers without Borders NL, TrashSmart Ghana and Humanitarian Engineering UT | IDE - "Turning Plastic Waste into Building Bricks"
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📍 Office room N 142 (Horst Building)
Expertises
Material Science
- Temperature
- Tool Steel
- Aluminum
- Lubricant
- Friction
- Physical Vapor Deposition
- Surface
- Lubrication
Organisaties
🔬 2022-2026 - Currently involved with supervising MSc and BSc projects together with Engineers without Borders
🎩 2017-2025 - PhD in Machine Elements from Luleå University of Technology - In the domain of high temperature tribology - My PhD thesis was on "On aluminium transfer at high temperature – Mechanisms and control"
💼 2017 - Research Engineer in Machine Elements at Luleå University of Technology - In the domain of tribology, researching the properties and development mechanisms of tribolayers under wear tests of tool steel materials with varying carbon content, varying test speeds and configurations
🎓 2016 - Double MSc degree from ENISE France - In the domain of surface texturing to promote adhesive bonding between aluminium and polymeric glue - My MSc thesis was on "Mechanical surface texturing by knurling process - Application to Adhesive bonding" (in english, available on my LinkedIN profile). S. Divin did her PhD thesis on the follow-up of my MSc thesis "Texturation micrometrique de surface par procédé mecanique de moletage pour optimiser la tenue des assemblages collés" (PhD thesis in french)
+ My engineering school graduation report was on "Texturation de Surface par voie Mécanique de type Moletage - Application au Collage -" (in french)
💼 2015 - Intern in University lab at Högskolan i Halmstad - In the domain of pitting of gear steel - My internship was on "Using an industrial tribometer to study the micro pitting phenomena appearing on gears" (in english, report available on my LinkedIN profile)
💼 2014 - Intern in R&D department in Die Casting company CastMétal Feurs on ceramic inserts in aluminium casts to improve wear resistance of cast bucket teeth.
Publicaties
2023
2021
Overige bijdragen
See my Researchgate, Publons and/or OrcID page for updated list of publications
Onderzoeksprofielen
🥽 Part of the curriculum renewal of the BSc in Mechanical Engineering since 2025 | Theme: Project and Skills | Semester 1: Mechanical design and Manufacturing | 🔗Quality Insurance - NVAO Mechanical Engineering - Publication outcomes development dialogue
⚙️ Module and Project coordination since 2022 | Module ME 4: Design and Mechanics | BSc in Mechanical Engineering
- 2024 - Project case in partnership with Revalidatiecentrum Roessingh - "Design of a patient lift"
- 2023 - Project case in partnership with Engineers without Borders NL - "Design of a water tower frame"
- 2022 - Project case in partnership with Huisman Equipment BV - "Design of an offshore crane for maintenance of floating wind turbines"
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🧰 Semester 1 project coordination since 2023 | UT-VU semester 1| Joint BSc in Mechanical Engineering UT-VU
- 2025 - Project case on a Mechanical Dutch Shuffleboard (Sjoelen) Player - Ongoing
- 2024 - Project case on a Mechanical Cornhole Player - Final competition on Campus at the UT
- 2023 - Project case on a Mechanical Pétanque Player - Final competition at the local Jeu de Boules association
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💼 Individual internship supervision since 2024 | MSc internship in Mechanical Engineering
- 2025 - Tim Roos - Internship with Damen | ME - "Barge Loader for a Cutter Suction Dredger"
- 2024 - Luc Visser - Internship with Huisman Equipment BV | ME - "Design of a transportation cart -Subcomponent of deck skid system for monopile installation"
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🔬 MSc thesis co-supervision since 2024 | MSc theses in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design Engineering
- 2026 - Geert Talsma - Assignment with Engineers without Borders NL, TrashSmart Ghana and Humanitarian Engineering UT | ME - Ongoing
- 2025 - Tirsa van der Ouw - Assignment with Engineers without Borders NL, TrashSmart Ghana and Humanitarian Engineering UT | IDE - "Turning Plastic Waste into Building Bricks"
Verbonden aan opleidingen
Vakken collegejaar 2025/2026
Vakken in het huidig collegejaar worden toegevoegd op het moment dat zij definitief zijn in het Osiris systeem. Daarom kan het zijn dat de lijst nog niet compleet is voor het gehele collegejaar.
Vakken collegejaar 2024/2025
Adres

Universiteit Twente
Horst Complex (gebouwnr. 20), kamer N142
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Universiteit Twente
Horst Complex N142
Postbus 217
7500 AE Enschede